[Cialug] Moving Linux from one disk to another

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Barry Von Ahsen <barry at vonahsen.com> wrote:
> I'm still finding this argument interesting - if I've got 200G of data to
> ship across the country, and the transfer fails half-way with a tarball,
> I've got to start over from zero, where with rsync, I only have to start
> from half.  everyone found the -z flag, right (compress)?

Two things, I've noticed rsync is slower to transfer when I'm copying
many small files verses large files. For a (hopefully) one time copy
of a very large tar file I'd split it first. 100M chunks or similar.

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